[brianwillis]

I'm really pleased to see Apple getting away from the "events" concept that iPhoto introduced. It was a good idea in theory - all your photos would be automatically grouped into albums based on the date they were taken - but in practice requiring that every photo in your library belong to exactly one event meant that you had a bunch of awkward single-photo events. Photostream ended up making this worse with special photostream-only events that completely broke the model of how photos should be organised.

[amirmc]

I've actually been quite pleased with the events concept. I found albums annoying and manually tedious but that pics automatically get grouped has made it easy for me to go back through old photos and find the ones I'm looking for. You're right about the annoying single-photo events but then I just dump them all together into the 'photostream' event for that month.

[Wingman4l7]

Wouldn't this also have been super annoying for events that went past midnight and spilled over into the next day?

[fletom]

IIRC events were created based on some heuristic of the photos' geolocaiton data and time taken. So if you do a 3 day trip outside of your city that becomes one event on import. It was also super easy to merge two events into one. I thought it worked pretty well in general.